Bnf. Code. However, in early 2022, the private Trust that originally owned Braniff's intellectual property since 1983, reacquired these assets along with the original Braniff company and corresponding assets that it had previously owned. The summer of 1931 welcomed St Louis to the Braniff system on June 15, with nonstop service offered between St Louis and both Chicago and Tulsa. For the hostesses, Pucci used "space age" themes, including plastic Bolas (first edition zippered version) Space Helmets (second edition with snaps) as they were dubbed by Pucci. The 727s had been selected before Lawrence's arrival, but no orders had been placed. Callsign. 1 Mar 1984. This key premise was highly successful. Braniff issued select promotional materials and postcards that presented a Concorde with orange cheat line that began at the tip of nose and continued to the end of tail, white BI logo (designed by Alexander Girard as part of "End of the Plain Plane" campaign in 1965) against orange vertical stabilizer, and 1978 Braniff Ultra Font for "Braniff" below the cheat line. The next day, on May 12, Braniff Airways ceased air operations, ending 54 years of air service. AIRLINE. It also operated two Grumman SA-16/ HU-16 Albatross . Howard Putnam implemented a one-fare-structure plan called the Texas Class Campaign. Braniff quickly expanded its route system to include Kansas City Fairfax Airport on December 5, 1930. Perhaps ironically, Virgin co-owner Singapore Airlines once had its colors on the side of the Concorde when it operated joint flights with British Airways. In 1930, the company was bought by the Aviation Corporation (AVCO) which was the predecessor of American Airlines.[4]. MIAMI Today in Aviation marks the 45th anniversary of the launch of Alexander Calder's Flying Colors of the United States livery by Braniff, depicted on a Boeing 727-200 from the airline, to celebrate the 4th of July. The domestic flights often had no more than 15 passengers on average for each flight while Braniff's Boeing 727 flights were filled close to the capacity despite being 20 minutes slower than Concorde. Braniff Airways fleet details. A plan recently approved by the C.A.B. Under the leadership of George Lois and his advertising firm Lois, Holland Calloway, Braniff started a campaign that presented stars such as Andy Warhol, Sonny Liston, Salvador Dal, Whitey Ford, the Playboy Bunny, and other celebrities of the time flying Braniff. Mr. Thayer had been extremely vocal about Braniff's critical position if deregulation were to take affect. . Irridescent colors of Chocolate Brown, Perseus Green, Mercury Blue and Terra Cotta along with two metallic colors were matched with striking racing stripes called Power Paint Stripes, which served to enhance the elegant scheme with a sleek racy feel. Aside from a few second-hand DC-8-51s and the long range DC-8-62s these colours would be seen exclusively on 727s. By the mid-1970s Braniff's fleet of 727s showed the efficiencies that a single type of aircraft could produce. If you look at the 1972-78 Braniff Annual Reports, you can see they were already worried about the rising cost of jet fuel. First on the agenda was to overhaul Braniff's public image including the 1959 Red and Blue El Dorado Super Jet livery which Wells saw as "staid". The acquisition of the Minneapolis/St. Paul R. Braniff died in June 1954 from complications from pneumonia and from throat cancer. Braniff International Hotels, Inc., also continued in operation, which primarily operated the world famous Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas. [1] The last Braniff MAC charter associated with the Vietnam War was flown in 1975. Former Braniff president Russel Thayer was elected as vice chairman of the board, William Huskins as executive vice president, Neal J. Robinson as executive vice president of marketing, and Edson "Ted" Beckwith as executive vice president of finance. It became the flagship of the fleet and would fly the airline's inaugural flight to London in 1978, the airline's 50th anniversary year . (standard & winglet versions) Includes uncompressed bmp textures as well a layered Photoshop file for Photoshop users. However, in spite of the service's less than stellar performance, the cost to Braniff was negligible thanks mainly to the agreements that Braniff negotiated with both British Airways and Air France. Consequently, this livery was not used on any Braniff aircraft. Reg: N456BN photos. Name. Braniff Airways was the nation's eighth largest airline (then as Braniff International) at the time it ceased operations in 1982. . Due to the American noise regulations, Concorde was limited to Mach 0.95 yet flew at slightly above Mach 1.[1]. Braniff therefore enlarged the domestic network by 50% on December 15, 1978, adding 16 new cities and 32 new routes, which Braniff stated was the "largest single-day increase by any airline in history". Concorde service began on 12 January 1979 between DallasFort Worth and Washington, D.C., with service to Paris and London on interchange flights with Air France and British Airways respectively. Braniff's last piston schedule was operated with a Convair 340 aircraft in September 1967 and the last Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprop service was flown in April 1969. The new 'Flying Colors of Braniff' were available in four combinations: Red/Aztec Gold. Braniff International operated the following aircraft types during its existence:[42], This article is about the original Braniff. In 1958, at the height of business, Braniff Airways built a new terminal and facilities at Dallas Love Field called the Braniff Operations and Maintenance Base . The new company, founded in May 1928, began regularly scheduled service from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, using 6-passenger Lockheed Vega single-engine aircraft on June 20, 1928. Of . This doubled the 727 utilization rate and allowed Braniff to open the new cargo business, dubbed AirGo. Service was added between Oklahoma City and Amarillo during the Summer of 1929. Boeing 720s were added in the early 1960s. It was before American Airlines bought up the gems of Braniff's 727 fleet at a half-price discount, and before Braniff stock plummeted from 19 to 4. This allowed Braniff to begin late-night cargo service, while the aircraft carried passengers during the day in August 1966. "All key indicators have leveraged a favorable decision to move forward as . . This add-on makes the following airliners, in a range of liveries;* BAC-111. Considering the airline wasn't filling its existing 707s the advent of a massive fleet of new much larger 747s was ominous. Braniff was the only airline to order the 707-227 because their low density and powerful engines were perfectly suited to Braniff's thin and high routes from the US Mainland to South America. In 1927, Paul R. Braniff and his brother Thomas Elmer Braniff and several investors formed Oklahoma Aero Club to fly the founding executives using a Stinson Detroiter, purchased by Paul Braniff, registered as NC1929, on hunting, fishing, and business trips. Braniff was a leading partner in the planning of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and contributed many innovations to the airline industry during this time. Braniff International lauded the CAB's quick decision as the carrier had stated that because of its tenuous cash position that it might have to shut the routes down if an agreement was not approved. International Airlines. The airline (Aerolineas Centrales de Colombia) ceased operations in 2003. al433 by George Hamlin . It served its purpose as Braniff's name recognition increased worldwide. The new "jelly bean" fleet consisted of such bold colors as beige, ochre, orange, turquoise, baby blue, medium blue and lemon yellow, and lavender. The trijet was the key aircraft in the 1971 Fleet Standardization Plan that called for three aircraft types: the Boeing 727 primarily operated on domestic services, the Boeing 747 for Hawaii, and the Douglas DC-8 for South America. . The new service operated nonstop between Kansas City and Tulsa and additional new cities were added in early 1931. Braniff remained in this building until December 1978, when it moved its spacious new Braniff Place World Headquarters on the west side of DFW Airport. [1] In 1978 Braniff announced it had chosen the Boeing 757 and 767 to replace the DC-8s over its Latin America Division routes, but the airline never operated the 757, 767, A300 or MD-80.[19]. Texas Class created a one-fare, one-service airline domestically and removed First Class from all Braniff aircraft. The joint Braniff Airways, British Airways & Air France services 1979-1980. Braniff also continued to operate its Council Rooms, which were VIP passenger lounges, at certain airports including DFW Airport, which were contracted for use by other airlines that operated in Braniff's terminal facilities. At that time, Braniff was the eighth-largest U.S. carrier, with 9,500 employes, service to 56 cities and a fleet of 83 planes. The simultaneous touchdown marked the beginning of a regularly . In early 1982, Braniff Chairman Howard Putnam decided to sell the Latin American Division. . Braniff eventually ordered several variants of the 727 including the "quick change" cargo/passenger combi aircraft variant, the stretched 727-200, and later the 727-200 Advanced. This was the same for Western, National and Continental.[1]. The United States Postal Service granted Braniff their first airmail route soon after and the new route was inaugurated in May 1934, which effectively saved the company from failure. In 1955 Braniff was the tenth largest US airline by passenger-miles and ninth largest by domestic passenger miles. Also has a separate full body and tail .psd for ease in painting the multi-part fuselage. Besides offering its aircraft to the United States military, it also leased its facilities at Dallas Love Field to the military, which became a training site for pilots and mechanics. Then, just as similar US airlines were divesting the giant aircraft, Braniff decided to vastly expand its 747 fleet - by 1980, Braniff was operating nine of them. Braniff was allowed to operate a charter service in Mexico for a brief period in 1947 but that was also discontinued and service was not commenced again until 1960[7]. Competition throughout the Braniff system, and increased service at Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport by American Airlines and Delta Air Lines, both of which operated hubs at DFW, caused further erosion in revenue.[1]. In 1984 a new Braniff, Incorporated, launched its first flight with a fleet of thirty planes under the direction of president William Slattery, formerly chief of European operations for Trans World Airlines. Air Canada Flights. Braniff had a fleet of 54 Douglas DC-3 (C-47) aircraft. An increase in mail subsidy, requested by Mr. Braniff before his death, was granted in 1954, and the company returned to profitability. The pride of the fleet was a pair of jets painted by legendary artist Alexander Calder - a DC-8 in the orange and red of South America, celebrating Braniff's large portfolio of routes there, and a 727 with patriotic red white and blue streaks to mark America's 1976 bicenntenial (although it had its detractors - one crew from a rival . The new fleet carried such colors as beige, ochre, orange, turquoise, baby blue, medium blue, lemon yellow, and lavender/periwinkle blue. Braniff has provided manpower, equipment and airline and cargo services to every major war beginning with World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. In April 1964, Braniff made deposits on two Boeing 2707 Supersonic Transports, $100,000 per aircraft. Northwest in the Pacific and Braniff in Latin America. In August 1935, Paul Braniff left to pursue other opportunities and Charles Edmund Beard placed in charge of daily operations. A thunderstorm provided an excuse to cancel many afternoon flights that day, although Braniff's legendary Boeing 747 Flight 501 to Honolulu departed as scheduled, with the crew later refusing to divert the flight to Los Angeles International Airport. Tom Braniff, president of Braniff Airways, ordered the company's first DC-3s on August 29, 1939. Subseries 2. includes a narrative history of Mid-Continent Airlines and Panagra Airlines. The merger added numerous cities, including Minneapolis/St. By the mid-1950s, it was the 10th largest airline in the country. Jetrail was the world's first fully automated monorail system, taking passengers from remote parking lots at Love Field to the Braniff terminal. The airline would occupy the facility until the late 1980s, with the Braniff, Inc. (Braniff II) holding company, Dalfort, remaining there until 2001. Former Braniff employees founded Minnesota-based Sun Country Airlines in 1983. Casey met with Southwest Airlines President Howard A. Putnam and offered him the Braniff executive position. Negotiations had been underway with Pan American World Airways since early 1982, but the Civil Aeronautics Board would not approve sale to Pan Am because it felt that Pan Am would have a monopoly over other American carriers in the region. [8] The route was then extended in February 1949 to La Paz and in March 1949, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. During the domestic flights, the Braniff's registration numbers were affixed to the fuselage with temporary adhesive vinyl stickers. Pucci used a series of nautical themes for crew uniforms for flight attendants, pilots, ground and terminal personnel. Additional Lockheed Vegas were added to the fleet during 1931 and 1932. And the Braniff board ousted Mr. Lawrence when it was clear they made the wrong decision based on his suggestions. These planes were the "quick change" (B727-100C) model, with a large freight loading door on the left side just aft of the flight deck. However, the name and company was retained by the brothers until 1932.[3]. The new company, owned by Mr. Braniff, had three 21 passenger Douglas DC-3s that had been allocated to the carrier from the United States War Surplus Administration in February, 1945. Braniff Airlines, Inc., and the carrier grew by adding service from Oklahoma City to San Angelo, Texas, with intermediate stops at Wichita Falls, Breckenridge and Abilene, Texas by the Summer of 1929 and service at Denison, Texas was added on July 5, 1929. C. RTW777 Info. At one time, it even operated a Concorde on a short-term lease! Fifteen colors were used during the 1960s (Harper & George modified Girard's original seven colors in 1967), in combination with 57 variations of Herman Miller fabrics. Repaint by Paul Craig. Braniff no longer had the revenue structure to maintain its cash requirements. Braniff's fuel costs rose from nearly US$200 million to US$400 million during 1979 and in spite of this huge increase in costs, the company still managed to implement service to multiple domestic destinations and expand across the Atlantic and Pacific and endure the airline coupon sales gimmicks used by passengers during the fourth quarter of 1979, which caused Braniff to lose 5 percentage points of load factor during the fourth quarter, and still only report a moderate loss of US$39 million. Box 610646 2200 W. Braniff Boulevard (West Airfield Drive), Fleet was retired in 1972 but one aircraft was converted for executive charter work until 1977, Only four were delivered. Later uniforms and accessories were composed of interchangeable parts, which could be removed and added as needed. As part of the acquisition, Acker became executive vice president and CFO of Braniff. Braniff International Airways (1928 - 1982), Braniff (1983 - 1989) For more details about an aircraft category, click on the corresponding number in the table below. The Boeing 727 would become the backbone of the Braniff fleet and the trijet was the key aircraft in the 1971 Fleet Standardization Plan, which called for three aircraft types: the Boeing 727 primarily operated . The campaign was not successful, pushing Braniff's bread-and-butter business travelers over to traditional airlines with First Class on all flights. 1k followers. The wings iced up on approach to landing in Shreveport, and the plane lost altitude. Welcome to the new home for Braniff Virtual Airlines. Braniff reported an 80 percent increase in business during the life of the campaign in spite of an economic downturn the following year. The merger was effective on February 1, 1967, and Panagra's remaining piston airliners were retired. [2], In April 1926, Paul Revere Braniff incorporated Braniff Air Lines, Inc., which was a planned flight school and aircraft maintenance entity that never came to fruition. [1] The Douglas DC-8s were aging, and there was speculation whether new Boeing 757s, Boeing 767s or Airbus A300s would replace the long range DC-8-62s (which flew Braniff's South American routes including nonstops from Los Angeles and New York City to Bogota, Colombia and Lima, Peru as well as nonstops from Miami and New York City to Buenos Aires)[18] with McDonnell Douglas MD-80s possibly being introduced on shorter routes. Today this video's topic is about the 707 of Braniff International. However, unlike Singapore Airline's Concorde, none of the Braniff Interchange Concordes were impressed with Braniff livery. For the first time in airline history, fuel costs, which doubled in 1979, exceeded labor as the largest operating cost for airlines. 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